I am a musician, producing my own songs. Have vocals, can play more than one instruments like piano, electric-acoustic-bass guitar and a little bit drums. I have an aggressive music taste i.e. nine ...

I currently try to familiarize myself with the theories behind FM synthesis.
I found this page with a lot of useful information about FM synthesis:
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/fm.html
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I am 18 years old. I love music and I would love to make it and maybe become a music composer. However I do not know anything about music theory or anything. I can't play any instrument or so. When I ...

I'm kinda like a Newby to fl studio. And I was wondering if anyone could help me out.
Basically I need to know how to build a melody line, for any song. And I realised I need to learn how to create ...

I am currently obsessed with the track by Celldweller called "Last Firstborn". Is there any name for the keyboard technique used in the chorus?
In this YouTube video you can hear it from 1:28 right ...

Is is possible to recreate any sound you hear in a synth? Think of it like ear training, but with a synth. Being able to deconstruct a sound with your ear, know what type of waveform is being used, ...

When creating electronic beats, I have a hard time deciding if I should really use a synthesizer to sequence my whole rhythm section. Sometimes I end up using samples or recording something close to ...

I've always wanted to produce music. Like to sit in front of my laptop and start making those electro/dubstep things. Yeah, I went too far, but "Dreams sometimes come true!".
I only want if somebody ...

I am a beginner-intermediate Indian classical musician and I know 'some' western classical music theory. I play some amount of piano too.
Lately I have been having the wish of composing tunes. I can ...

Sorry if it might sound a bit of trivial to some of you peeps..I don't get what the author wants to say with this:
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To represent the amplitude envelope,we will continue to use the waveform view,but ...

I posted a question earlier, which a number of people pointed out was coming off too broad to make for a good post, and it was suggested I boil it down to a smaller bite, so here goes.
I have been a ...

I have a Korg padKontrol midi controller and it is fairly easy to get it going with Ableton Live 9 as a drum trigger.
However, I would like to use it to trigger scenes in session view and generally ...

This question has been answered sufficiently, and I have posted a new, more specific question as was suggested.
So, this probably isn't the usual post you might expect going by the title - this isn't ...

In my opinion Fl Studio is a complete software to create music.
But the musics composed can be saved only in mp3, not in flac.
- So is it possible to create a music with Fl Studio, and to sell it then ...

Using Windows 8.1 x64
Using POD X3 Live as a soundcard (which is working fine and not disconnecting during my guitar recording sessions)
I'm using ableton lite x64
Both my POD X3 Live and Oxygen is ...

All basic synthesizers can produce the basic waveforms: sawtooth, square, triangle, and sometimes sine. Does each synthesizer "injects" its own character to the waveform? Are all sawtooths the same, ...

I tried to integrate FL Studio as a VST plugin into Virtual DJ 8 but when I activate the plugin there is no sound from the song that was originally playing. Also the BPMs from Virtual DJ do not sync ...

I am an electronic producer, and I was wondering if electronic music producers even write down their music on scores? Is that important enough to do for this category of music genres? Or should I do ...

I am looking for a midi effect for Max for Live which allows the creation of arbitrary trance patterns. Something like the one embedded in FM8, just to be clear. Many people implement trancegates on ...

I am wondering what the difference is between House, Electro and perhaps Progressive House in precise musical terms (not in terms of what it feels like/what musicians are examples of the respective ...

I'm currently learning how to become a DJ. One of the concepts that caught my attention was "harmonic mixing". I know some very basic music theory, and I'm having some trouble understanding it.
What ...

I've been working for a year on home recording and I kept all my sounds "pure" so I didn't mix my songs a lot. However, I notice that a lot of bands use synthesizers or even complete electro mixes as ...

I'm an avid fan of edm and I want to start making my own music, and I have a general idea of the tools that I need to start (mixing board, MIDI controller, Ableton, etc.) but I was wondering if there ...

While attempting to better my understanding of the roots of electronic dance-able popular (as opposed to classical or experimental) music, I found out that most of its influences come from disco and ...

I'm trying to remix a song, and I've cut an audio event (referencing its own clip) into slices. Is there a way to use these slices to make a rhythmic beat, as if each slice were a drum pad (other than ...

I want to start making music on my computer. I already play a bunch of real instruments, but I imagine I'll want to also use synth noises and such. Intuitively I don't see why I can't just produce any ...

I have an electronic keyboard (Casio CTK-4000). I want to use it with MilkyTracker on Ubuntu. After connecting it to my laptop with a USB A/B printer cable and doing some aconnect routing, I was able ...

I'm thinking of trying to learn how to remix songs with GarageBand and similar applications. So far I'm a total noob, and I'm just wondering who is allowed remix what songs? Is anyone allowed to remix ...

I recently stumbled upon this live mashup and I am electrified. The fellow's name is Madeon, and he has a number of similarly great remixes and mashups on SoundCloud.
I've always enjoyed electronic ...

I use tools including Ableton Analog, NI Massive and FAW Circle, with which I can produce more or less any sound I like, but I don't really understand how synthesis works and how to make a sound with ...

I was listening to the group Terravita's song and heard a awesome sounding synthesizer with what sounds like it has heavy effects. It sort of sounds like a flanger, but with an almost wetness or moist ...